Author name: Richard Clarke

The map above shows Regents Park, London in 1833. Although it had for centuries been the area of a royal hunting park, in the early 19th century the future George IV proposed it be given over as a public park, thus making it one of the first such designations. From the outset, the peripheral land […]

Continuing the points noted on a walk around the perimeter properties of Pearson Park, Hull. One, possibly surprising, element of these properties was their relative lack of grounds. The properties on the north side of the Park had but a modest plot between themselves and Cottingham Drain, this later culverted, the area now being a

Yesterday evening guided a walk around the perimeter housing of Pearson Park, on behalf of the Friends of Pearson Park. Despite the rain holding off it was not well attended; the complimentary explanation being competition from Platinum Centenary events, the one less so being that it just wasn’t very interesting – although we only got

Although not immediately obvious from the picture above the bottom two shelves of the bookcase were inundated in 2013 (s.p.b.), this including all my notes on walking the east coast of England, in stages, in the 1990s – cruel irony, leaving one with a ‘sinking’ feeling. Recently my friend from Barton and his wife were

Just a post-script to my recent 40+ blogs on housing history. The picture above shows just the end of my previous house, the garden path, the car and the storage shed on the day after the tidal surge flood of 5th December, 2013. As occupants were ordered-out by the police before the full force of

One of the most dramatic features of the landscape history of Britain in modern times has been the physical expansion of urban areas with the concomitant loss of once rural areas and of once independent or suburban communities. The map above, copied from page 9 of the Victoria County History, East Yorkshire, Vol. 1, Kingston-upon-Hull,